Not even Buster himself knew where he was. He was lying down. He yawned and stretched himself. He got up and started to move. SLASPH! He pulled his head out of the sea. The sea? He climbed himself back on the surfboard he was lying on. He was wearing red swim shorts.

"Don't ask me, Toonsters," he said to the audience. "I'm away from my friends, I'm in the middle of open water and I'm getting sunburnt. Who knows what could be out there?"

"Me, for a start," said a female ten-year-old Australian voice belonging to someone who jumped on the other end of his surfboard.

"Hi, Nell," said Buster. Then he gasped. "Nell?"

"Let me explain, Buster," she said. "A: I can talk, as you noticed. B: I took you out here away from our friends because those CGI soldiers who are after you have taken over Chip and C: - "

"My friends are still on Chip?" exclaimed Buster. "And they are with – I've got to help them."

"Think about it, Buster!" said Nell. "They only want you and the orb you're carrying. Our friends will be saved and let alone when they discover that you're not on Chip… Which appears to be now."

And she was right. A Neo Fleet of speedboats circled around them.

"What do we do now, Nell?" asked Buster, who didn't trust Nell at the moment. He couldn't see her at the moment. Then he and his board were up in the air. They flipped over the fleet. They landed about fifty yards away from them. Then Nell appeared in front of him.

"Yes, it was me who did that," she said, "but what else could I do?"

"That was… awesome!" smiled Buster. Then they heard the fleet coming behind them. "Let's go!"

Nell jumped up and down in front, followed by Buster swimming on his board.

The speedboats were gaining on them.

"Your sister's really cool and she's a real true fan," Buster cried to Nell, "but you mustn't follow her every move. It could – "

"Dia didn't tell me to do this," Nell told him. "I thought of this by myself and, in answer to your next question, I'm making it up as I go along."
CGI bullets nearly got them. Then Nell swam to the left. "Keep going straight on!" she ordered.

"What? Where are you going?" But suddenly Buster was gaining a trusting feeling for this weird dolphin. He headed straight on. Then he turned his head to see Nell jumping over the fleet of speedboat, dodging the bullets in the process. She didn't need to do it twice.

"She's not a dolphin, she's a daredevil," Buster said to the audience.

Then Nell appeared next to him. "That was no daredevil stunt," she said. "Any dolphin could find a way for them to run out of ammo."

"Yeah, but that's not stopping them," Buster told her.

Nell turned and saw that he was right. About fifty Neos, wearing wetsuits, were on surfboards and coming after them.

"They seem to be going fast and appear to be water-proof for a bunch of computer people," said Nell.

"Well, they're completely covered up," Buster said, "whereas you're wearing a dress and I'm just in my – "

"Let's not talk about stuff that's gonna be censored," said Nell. "Besides here's our chance to lose them."

"What?" Buster felt like he was going from horizontal to vertical. He saw he was falling down a giant tidal wave. He quickly stood up and rode the wave. Above him it was raining Neo surfers who had lost their balance and fell of their boards.

"That's not all of them, surfing Tony Hawk," Nell reported, jumping next to the blue bunny. "There's more behind us!"

"We can lose them on the big waves there," said Buster. "Let's go!"

Buster and Nell charged for the giant tidal waves, followed by the Neo surfers. Buster and Nell rode the waves like mad. For the chasing surfers, it was like standing on dodge cars and they were moving. They fell into the giant waves.

Buster and Nell arrived at a nice, warm and white-sand cartoon beach.

"That was the coolest thing that ever happened to me, Nell!" Buster smiled as he got off the board.

"Well, being Dia's companion helped me a lot," said Dia modestly.

Then singing could be heard.

"That doesn't sound like siren singing," said Nell.

Buster looked around too. He thought it was coming from behind a rock. Buster gestured Nell to go on the ride side of the rock. Buster went to the left side of the rock and peered over. He quickly grabbed…

"Hey!" cried Babs, wearing an orange bikini top and a golden mermaid tail.

"You know you look more like a worm on a hook than a mermaid," said Buster.

"Get a life, Buster!" shouted Babs. "Put me down!"

Buster let go.

"You've got a lot of nerve running away from us when we're trying to protect you," Babs went on.

"It wasn't him," Nell interrupted. "It was me. And if you think he was running off with me like when you ran off with that new student as Acme Loo, it's nothing like that at you."

"Is that what all this madness is about?" asked Babs angrily. "Me spending time with that new guy, Bucky Bunny?"

"I assumed that green bunny dance expert student was just a friend," said Buster. "But I saw you spending more time with him and even going out with him."
"You've been spying on me all this time?"

"Like you'd know," scoffed Buster. "While you and Bucky were dance students for Louie Finn, I was a grade A+ student for spy comedy. Which make me the perfect part for this role in the story, don't you think?" he said to the audience. Then he turned back to the pink bunny. "Anyway, yes, I followed you every night until that night you and Bucky went to out for dinner and kissed!"

Nell had enough of their arguing so she hopped away. There she bumped into Plucky and Hamton. "How'd you guys get here?" she asked.

About thirty minutes ago, Zack and the rest of Chip's crew still didn't know what to do. They couldn't find Buster or Nell. And they were still upset about the fact that Eric Epic and Bugs Bunny might be dead.

Then Zack had an idea. "Hey, Jim, here's Buster with the Acme Orb," he cried, chucking something that looked like Buster to him. John caught it.

"Yeah, we've got him!" cheered John. "We've got him, men!"

The Neo Army cheered.

"HOLD IT!" yelled Jim. "John, does that look like Buster Bunny to you?"

"Well, he's blue and he's wearing his red jumper," John said.

"Yes, but he's not moving and he's not breathing, is he?" snapped Jim.

"Are you sure?" asked John. "He feels all nice and soft, so he must be alive."

"John, THAT'S NOT BUSTER BUNNY!" his twin brother yelled. "THAT'S JUST A DOLL VERSION OF HIM! This was all a little trick to – "

He saw Zack, Dia and the toons were not there.

"Now look what you've done!" yelled Jim, smacking his brother's head.

"Me? What did I do?"

Then Jim turned to the Neo Army. "And look what you boys have done, too!"

"What did we do, sir?" asked the Major.

"You let O'Marrows and his friends take your teleport devices off you!" Jim told him.

"Not true, sir," said the Major. He turned to the men. "Men, let's teleport away!"

He and his men, without looking, used their fingers to push on their teleport devices, only it wasn't there.

Jim sighed, snatched a gun from the nearest Neo soldier and hit his forehead with it a few times.

"…so we three decide to follow you and Buster here instead of back to Chip," finished Hamton.

"When you say 'we', do you mean… it was just Babs?" whispered Hamton.

Plucky and Hamton checked on Babs, who was still arguing with Buster. Then Hamton said, "She won't tell us why, but she made us come here."

"But, at least, we're safe," smiled Plucky. "Sunshine, cool breeze and not a soul for miles."
"Yeah, more like three dozen soldiers under seventy-five paces," said Nell.

"What!" exclaimed Plucky. He saw a squad of Neo soldiers running on the beach towards them… now fifty paces away.

"Run!" ordered Plucky. He and Hamton ran.

The bunnies were still having their heated conversation. Nell grabbed them. "Sorry to interrupt, but they're here."

The boys were running and the girls were hopping as fast as they could. Hamton looked behind. "It's no use! They're gaining on us!"

"Stop!" Nell yelled and they all did. "I've got an idea."

The Neo Squad followed the toons' tracks. Then they were forced to stop. They came up across three houses. No, it wasn't the three little pigs' houses. It was a house made out of sand, a beach hut and a beach house.

"Check all three!" ordered the sergeant of the squad.

They checked the giant sand house first, only for it to get knocked down. They found nothing.

Then they checked the posh beach house. They turned everything upside down yet found nothing.

"All's left is the beach hut," said one of the soldiers.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" yelled the sergeant. "Get 'em!"

The soldiers ran for the beach hut, but colourful shines blocked their eyes. They put sunglasses on to see about a thousand balloons coming out of the roof of the hut. They saw the hut even lifting from the ground. It hovered above the Neo Army who were so bemused, yet amazed that they forgot their job, even the sergeant. Then his phone rang.

"Hello," he answered.

"Have you got the Acme Orb yet, Sergeant?" asked the Major's voice.

"No, sir, it's in the sky in a flying hut with balloons on it," smiled the Sergeant calmly.

"Let's all split into groups with one tech scanner per group!" ordered the Major. "Let's move!"

The Neo Soldiers ran back to speedboats, followed by Jim and John.

On the only people left on Chip was the dolphin family.

"Hey, what about us?" demanded the stepmother.

"What are we, seaweed?" yelled the stepfather.

"No, you're sand at the bottom of the sea," said Chip. "And here's your stop."

"Oh, finally!" moaned the stepson.

They dolphins got off. They saw that they were now stranded on a rock. It was too late to call Chip back now.

"I'm clear now, guys," said Chip, holding a microphone on his face.

Then – out of a flash – Zack, Dia and the toons came back.

"Well done, Chip," said Zack. "These teleport devices we took from the Epics' Army really did the trick. Now, is everyone present?"

"Zack," said Dia. "There's only…"

Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester and Tweety.

"Where are the others then?" asked Zack.

"We don't know!" snapped Daffy. "We teleported and came back as you ordered. There was no one else there."

"'Though we did manage to take a radio from the 'temeny's' camp we entered," said Tweey, holding a radio.

Zack took it and turned it on.

"Get those planes in the sky and shoot that house with balloons down now!" the Major ordered.

"Oh, no," cried Dia. "We've got to get to them before they take their spoof too far."

"What I don't understand is why I have to be the damsel in distress," Plucky's voice said through the hut in the sky.

"Because the bird is the damsel in the movie we're spoofing and you're the only bird on this hut," Nell's voice explained.

The door opened and Plucky came out not in green, but in blue. He looked exactly like Kevin the bird from the movie Up, only with his white tank top still on.

Then Plucky noticed the audience. "I know you guys are watching everything, but I was hoping you wouldn't notice this."

"Oh, gee, Plucky, it ain't so bad," said a mechanic voice. Plucky turned around to see Hamton covered up with Golden Retriever fur. He even had a collar. "They say this is one of the best movies that's been out for a while." The voice came not from his mouth but from his collar, just like Dug the dog from the movie.

"Well, I beg to differ," said Buster, who was dressed up in a boy scout's uniform filling the role for Russell. He was outside and panicking as he looked down, remembering his fear of flying.

"Sorry I didn't warn you, Buster," said Nell, hoping out dressed as the Pixar lamp. "But I had to think and act quickly at the same time. Besides, you're acting just like your character did when the house in the movie took off. He was just as scared."

"I don't blame him," said Buster.

"But why do we have to dress up like the characters?" asked Plucky.

"Because if those Neo soldiers are thick as you say they are, they'll believe we are the characters and they won't suspect us," Nell replied.

"All right," Buster sighed. "But you might wanna watch for – "

"Ah, ha, ha, ha!" heckled an old woman's voice. It came from Babs, who wore her glasses, a brown jacket and a brown skirt. She even had a cane with four tennis balls on them. "Well, don't just stand there!" she went on. "Help this old woman, who goes by the name of Carlisle Frederickson, get her house to – Where does the house go to in the movie?" she asked Nell in the strange old woman's voice.

"To a South African waterfall called Paradise Falls," Nell explained, "and, in your case – not that you pack anything – you're doing this for your late husband, Eddie Frederickson."

"Guys!" said Hamton's collar. "We've got incoming!"

Everyone looked ahead. There was a squad of Neo planes coming towards them.

"Act natural!" ordered Nell. And they did.

The Neo planes surprisingly slowed down.

"Major," said the Captain of the air squad.

"What is it, Captain?" asked the Major's voice.

"We have found it," said the Captain, "in a city of flying huts with balloons. We can't tell which one is which. Even the people who live in each one look similar."

"Well, find it!" ordered the Major's voice. And the radio was cut off.

The planes did their best as they flew through each flying hut on balloons. The huts and the balloons were all different colours but the people on the huts – who were all dressed up as an elderly person, a boy scout, a bird and a Golden Retriever – were all the same.

The planes slowly passed the Tiny Toons. After a while, nothing was to be seen or heard.

Everyone 'phewed'.

"Well, that seems to be over," said Hamton's collar.

"Then let's land!" cried a still-scared Buster. "I've had more than I can – "

BANG! About half the balloons were shot and the hut was falling!

Everyone was screaming. Nell hopped back in the hut and started turning the ropes that were controlling the hut.

"Look!" exclaimed Plucky. "There's a blue thing we can land on."

Buster, Babs and Hamton looked down. "That blue thing being water," pointed out Babs in her normal voice.

"So?"

"You can't land on water, Plucky!" snapped Buster. "You'll get squished!"
"Let me try!" said Plucky.

"I don't think so, Plucky," cried Nell, who was looking at a map. "I've got a better place."

Nell gave the hut a sudden jerk, but the Tiny Toons were happy when they came over an island.

"That's it, Nell!" cried Buster happily. "Just a little lower."
Then the Tiny Toons fell off the hut as all the balloons were popped.

Down and down they fell! They screamed and had their eyes closed. Then, without looking, Buster, then Babs, then Plucky and finally Hamton felt something and grabbed it. Buster saw he was holding onto something like a rope but it was grey and scaly. He saw below Hamton was a light bulb on it. He looked down and saw they were approaching the ground.

"Here's our stop, guys," said Buster to his friends. "Jump!"

Still without looking, they all jumped off. They couldn't find the thing they were holding onto that dropped them to the sandy ground.

"Where's Nell?" asked Buster.

"Where are we?" asked Hamton's collar.

"What's that?" cried Plucky.

He was pointing to a lake nearby them and out of it came something wearing a diver's mask and a pink and white bikini top and black briefs with a scuba diving tank on its back. Something else came wearing a diver's mask and a scuba diving tank on its back but wearing a green swimsuit.

The Tiny Toons screamed and began to wait.

The first figure took out its diving regular. "Wait, guys! It's us!" cried a female voice.

The Tiny Toons stopped. "Lola?"

"What happened?" asked Babs.

Lola Bunny and the second figure, who was Melissa Duck, came out of the lake and started taking their scuba diving equipment off.

"Well…" they began together.

After they teleported away from Chip, they landed on a Neo ship. And they were in the hanger of the ship with submarines hanging above them.

"Why'd we come here then?" asked Melissa.

"Maybe it's because I don't know how to work this remote!" snapped Lola.

Then footsteps coming down could be heard.

"Quick, Melissa," said Lola. "We have to escape."

"But how?" asked the duck.

Lola looked around. "Follow my idea!"

"How can I do that if I don't know what you're thinking?" asked Melissa.

"Just do what I do," sighed Lola.

Soon Neo soldiers arrived. "All right, let's get those submarines in the water!" ordered the commander. "Today, people!"

Soon the first submarine was ready. It was being lowered down. No one seemed to know that underneath the submarine a beautiful rabbit wearing a bikini and scuba diving equipment and a blonde duck wearing a swimsuit and scuba diving equipment. Except one big, fat, stupid Neo who was directing the crane where to drop the submarine. He saw them and they gave him a 'shush' finger sign.

The Neo nodded and turned to his commander. He passed on the 'shush' sign to the commander, who was most annoyed.

"Who are you telling 'shush'?" the commander yelled, grabbing him by the collar. "Who told you to tell me to 'shush'?"

The stupid Neo pointed to Lola and Melissa at the bottom of the submarine before they were taken down.

"Get after them!" ordered the commander.

Down below, Lola and Melissa were swimming as fast as they could.

"This is faster than taking the sub!" exclaimed Melissa through her breathing regulator.

"Yeah!" agreed Lola. "But not as faster as them!"

In front of them came a whole squad of underwater motorbikes operated by Neos. They gave chase! The toon girls tried to swim away, but the Neos were catching up. Then Melissa had an idea. "Head for that seaweed forest!" she ordered. Lola followed her.

The Neos followed them too. They saw the toons were getting deeper and deeper into the seaweed. The brainless Neos tried to get that low too, without realising the tall seaweed was entering and jamming their engines. The bikes stopped and the Neos fell off, only to be wrapped in seaweed, like files in spiders' web.

Then the toon girls swam away from the forest and came up to land…

"…where we met you guys," Melissa finished. She and Lola were back in their normal clothes.

"Wow! Like, that was totally awesome," said a thick valley accent.

Everyone turned around to see Shirley and Fifi behind them.

"How long have you girls been here for?" asked Lola.

"Sur thirty seconds," replied Fifi.

"Now how about your story?" said Melissa.

When Zack, Dia and the other toons sneaked on the Neo soldiers and stole their teleports devices away to sneak away, Shirley quickly grabbed Fifi and, when the good guys teleported away, Shirley used her powers to float away.

"This is, how do you say, the life!" screamed Fifi happily.

"Oh, yeah!" agreed Shirley.

Then Fifi heard a noise behind her and looked behind. It was a fleet of the Neos' own hoverbikes. They were each different coloured, but all darkened, fire-breathing dragon shaped and the fastest machines on Earth due their fast engines that make them go faster than Earth's fastest rockets. Yet they did not seem to be fast enough to catch the flying Shirley.

"Like, they can't catch up with me, if they totally tried," boasted Shirley.

"Which they are," Fifi pointed out, seeing the hoverbikes were coming up after them, now with the engines roaring louder than the dragon.

But Shirley's aura had different ideas. It came out of her body and charged for the hoverbikes. It stopped, got out a mallet and knocked each and every hoverbike down with it. One by one, the Neos fell into the sea.

With its work done, Shirley's aura flew back into the flying Shirley where she and Fifi approached the island where they caught up with their friends.

"So all we need is Chip, Zack, Dia, Daffy, Porky, Sylvester and Tweety," said Lola.

"But where could they be?" asked Melissa.

BOOM! They heard an explosion nearby, followed by gunfire and jet-ski engines.

"That could be them!" exclaimed Hamton.

"Then let's go!" yelled Buster.

The Tiny Toons followed the path to where the sound was coming from. Lola and Melissa followed.

"Don't go too far now!" Lola cried to them.

"Ah, what's the use?" asked Melissa. "They're not at Acme Loo anymore."

The toons came to end of a cliff. On the other side, there was a giant waterfall. Far from it, they could see Chip sailing away with Daffy, Porky, Sylvester and Tweety, while Neos on jet-skis were chasing Zack and Dia who had stole one of the Neos' jet-skis.

"Are you sure we trust Chip and the toons not to be captured?" asked Zack, as he steered the machine.

"Yes!" Dia yelled. "I've given them directions and instructions! Now here are yours! Head for that waterfall!"

"WHAT?" exclaimed Zack and the toons on the other side of the waterfall all at once.

"Just do it!" Dia ordered.

Zack went for the waterfall. Beneath them, the rapids were getting rougher the further they went and behind them were the squad of jet-skis getting closer.

"Turn 180 degrees!" yelled Dia.

Zack did so. The Neo jet-skiers pass them and went over the waterfall.

On the other side, the toons cheered.

"If they watched us," said Melissa, "we must have taught them so well."

"Better than these kids have ever learned from us," whispered Lola.

"We heard that!" snapped Babs.

But it wasn't over for Dia and Zack. A fleet of giant helicopters hovered above them with Neo soldiers holding guns at them.

Zack looked behind him. "You ever jumped off a waterfall before?"

"Oh, no," said Dia.

"Can you think of anything better?" he asked. He didn't wait for her to think. He turned the jet-ski around and charged for the waterfall.

"What are they doing?" asked Lola.

Then the toons were surprised and shocked, when the jet-ski jumped off the waterfall and Zack and Dia jumped off!

"Now no one can catch us now!" said a cocky Zack.

Dia looked below. "Then how do you describe that?"

Zack looked down and saw another giant helicopter was below them. A hatch opened and Neos drew their weapons at them.

Then the live-action duo vanished into thin air.

Everyone was shocked.

"Oh, no!" cried Hamton. "Where did they go?"

"Right behind you, oddly enough," said Dia's voice.

The toons turned around and saw Dia and Zack next to them.

"How did you get there?" asked Lola.

"No idea," said Zack and Dia together.

"From Clive," said a female voice. Behind the live-action duo, a light flashed and there stood a CGI person in a spacesuit that was completely made out of metal. It reached for a blue button. Zack and Dia drew out their swords and the toons drew out their mallets, dynamites and other toon weapons. The figure pressed the blue button anyway. The good guys charged for the figure when out of the suit came two holograms.

"Eric!" exclaimed Zack.

"Bugs!" exclaimed Lola.

Everyone was happy that they were alive. The holograms vanished. They now saw a CGI woman with the suit off. She was wearing a white tank top and black shorts with brown socks and grey mountain boots.

"Yes, Clive was there with Eric and Bugs when the space shuttle was blown up," said Clive Boun.

"So how did you escape?" asked Zack.

"Eric used his spells to teleport everyone away," Clive replied. "Before Eric sent Clive here, Eric told Clive to find the Acme Orb before the rest of the Neos do. And Clive has found it…" She was showing everyone her tracker and it was pointing to Buster.

"Is blue bunny related to… ?" Clive whispered to Dia.

"No, he's just Bugs Bunny's greatest admirer or fan," Dia whispered back. "Or so he thinks. Because I am."

"Ah, ha!" cried a voice. They all turned around to see three soldiers standing next to them.

"Look!" cried the leader of the three. "Hopcon's Most Wanted, Eric's friends and favourite toons all together! Lord Epic will delighted."

They drew their weapons. Then – BOOM! A giant hut fell on top of them. And on top of the broken hut was…

"Nell!" cried Dia.

"Better late never ever, eh?" she smiled.

Dia was annoyed with her sister. "What do you mean, by running off – "

"Cool it down, Dia," interrupted Buster. "She helped me to avoid getting captured."

"By spoofing Up?" laughed Zack.

"We were spoofing up what?" asked Plucky.

"I don't know!" Babs said still in her elderly voice. "But whatever movie it was, it must be – "

"Babs, you've stopped spoofing," said Dia. "You're not even in the clothes anymore."
" – a really – " Babs stopped and saw she was in her normal clothes. Then she saw Buster, Plucky and Hamton were, too. "Oh!" she said, feeling embarrassed.

"HELP! HELP!" cried a loud Irish voice.

"It's Chip!" cried Zack. "Everyone, follow me!"

And they did, except Dia who had to hop, because she forgot all about her techno jeans.

"Put this on," said Clive, as she put a backpack on Dia.

"How does this - ?" Dia's question was answered as she was hovering above the ground. She turned around to see a CGI jet-pack on her back.

Then Dia saw Clive wobbling. "In return, can Dia hold Clive's hand?" she asked.

Dia looked embarrassed.

"It's not that!" Clive snapped. "This Earth is very different to Hopcon."

Dia took it and helped her walk.

The good guys came out of the forest. Zack and Dia were laughing their heads off.

Clive and the toons were puzzled.

"What's so funny?" asked Buster.

They saw Chip standard on the beach. He was being attacked by the bushrats with their spears. They just found it so hilarious.

"Take this, you lousy pests!" Daffy said, getting out a sack of rat poison.

"Daffy, put that poison away!" ordered Zack.

"But they're – "

"Just misunderstood little creatures," said Zack. "Now put it away."
Daffy did so. Past him was Sylvester who jumped off Chip. He started chasing the bushrats. "Come 'ere, you little – "

"Why did I do to 'terserve' this?" moaned Tweey on the back of Sylvester.

"Oh, no, you don't!" shouted Dia, picking up Sylvester by the back. He put him down. "Bad kitty!"

"Think she could be our new granny?" Sylvester asked Tweety.

"She ain't far off," said Tweety.

Porky was still on Chip. "Maybe this will make ne – Ne – Go – peace between the rats," he said. He got out a bit of cheese and chuck it to the bushrats. One caught it and ate a bit.

"This tangy butter is delicious," he said in bushrat language.

Then the other bushrats tried to take it from him and that started a big fight.

"Porky, chuck me the cheese!" ordered Zack. Porky did. Zack turned to the bushrats. "Hey, guys, you want more?" He threw it so far it landed on the other side of the beach. The bushrats ran for it.

Porky and Daffy jumped off Chip and met up with the rest of the toons.

"Where are we?" asked Dia.

"Well, I haven't seen much episodes of this Looney Tune show," said Zack, "but I'd say we're on the island on Tazmaina."

"Taz?" said the toons. "As in the Tasmanian Devil?"

"Afraid so," said Zack.

Then rustling can be heard. It came from the bushes. Everyone feared for the worst. Something came out. It was a Tasmanian Wolf! It was Wendal T. Wolf.

"Hello, my new friends," said Wendal.

"Hi, Wendal," smiled Zack nervously. He shook hands with the wolf.

"Where do you guys come from?" asked Wendal. "Are you from America or England or Australia?" Then he turned to Chip. "Wow! Is this your ship? I know one or two things about ships. I used to be a cabin wolf on the H.M.S. Golly and then I became – "

Chip had never been so bored in his life; even his time in the bottle for half a millenium wasn't this bad. Then he saw Zack and his mates were walking away. "Hey! Where are you going?" he cried.

"Oh, well, we're just going to get you some brand new oil," said Zack before they all vanished.

Chip was an old ship, but he still wasn't an easily-fooled ship. "Oil, my butt," he moaned.

"Oil your butt?" said Wendal, grabbing an oil can and walking behind Chip. "No problem. I'm really good at oiling. Especially rear ends."

"I just had to open my big mouth, so I did," moaned the old Irish ship.